My photographic adventures on the other side of the world

May 18, 2017

Lighting up

My apologies for the tardy post this week. The delay was caused in equal parts by real life distractions and WordPress issues, which I have only just managed to resolve. Anyway, for this week I decided to dust off my trusty flash and experiment with my new wireless triggers and softbox. However, what happens when the photographer can’t find any willing models? Well he volunteers himself as well as some inanimate objects for modeling duties. While I am pretty happy with the results of the short session, I can definitely see areas for improvement, especially with the lighting and camera positions. The final photo is the result of playing around with some metallic paint and dragging the camera shutter. With the black and white conversion the aim was to focus the viewer’s eyes on the various forms in the photo, without the distraction of the heavy colour gradients.